Dr. Sergey Macheret Calls for Practical Use of Plasma Science Beyond the Lab

Renowned plasma scientist urges researchers and institutions to focus on scalable applications of plasma-based ...
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How a retractable plasma blade pushed engineering past its limits

The dream of a real lightsaber has always sounded like a physics joke, not an engineering brief. Yet a retractable plasma ...
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Chinese nuclear fusion reactor pushes plasma past crucial limit: what happens next

China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) is a nuclear-fusion research reactor in Hefei. Researchers hope ...

China’s Fusion Reactor Reached an ‘Unbreakable’ Limit—and Broke Right Through It

By exceeding a long-standing density barrier, China’s EAST fusion reactor proved that tokamaks can pack way more atoms into ...
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Chinese Fusion Reactor Achieves Plasma Density Previously Thought to Be Impossible

Scientists at China’s Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) program rang in the new year with a stunning ...

Tokamak experiments exceed plasma density limit, offering new approach to fusion ignition

Researchers working on China's fully superconducting Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) have experimentally ...

Researchers build plasma accelerator that boosts electron energy and brightness at the same time

Researchers from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the University of California, Los ...

Some say selling plasma is exploitative — others say it's a life-saving economy booster

With rising rent, utilities and the cost of groceries, a growing number of people are selling their blood plasma to make extra money. It's a multi-billion dollar industry.
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China's 'artificial sun' reactor shatters major fusion limit — a step closer to near-limitless clean energy

China's EAST nuclear fusion reactor has successfully kept plasma stable at extreme densities, passing a major fusion ...